The Department was pleased to welcome the Communication Arts Partners (CAPs) back to campus during the recent Homecoming weekend (October 11-12). The CAPs group consists of generous spirited alumni and emeritus faculty who have formed a departmental board of visitors to support the mission of Communication Arts. (For more on CAPs and its membership, visit …
This story originally appeared in the Vilas Voice. Twenty-six years—and plenty of tv series, movies and scripts—later, Jill Soloway (B.A.’87) still remembers the profound influence of her semester in the capstone production course, Comm Arts 659. “It was a revelation to me. It made me want to be an artist. It made me look at …
Position:Head Film Archivist, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks an experienced moving imagearchivist to oversee the film and video collections of the Wisconsin Centerfor Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) and, in affiliation with the UW’sSchool of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), to teach one courseannually in archival theory and …
Lea Jacobs, a film professor in Communication Arts, has been named Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School. As one of the associate deans, she will manage faculty and student issues in thirty-eight graduate programs of study, ranging from matters of research, to education, to administration. Professor Jacobs has been a …
The Department of Communication Arts Chair and WCFTR Director Vance Kepley is very pleased to announce the successful completion of a major, year-long effort to systematically reprocess one of the Center’s most important archival collections. With the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Center has completed the comprehensive reprocessing …
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, Karma Chávez, has been selected to receive this year’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award. This prestigious honor bestowed by the National Communication Association (NCA) places Professor Chávez amongst a list of venerable recipients spanning nearly forty years. As described by the NCA, the “Award was established by Mrs. Wallace and …
Last spring, then-freshman Sam Acker was hard at work directing and filming a movie with a small cast and crew about a zombie apocalypse–learning cinematography, studio lighting, website design, and Photoshop. Now, he feels more confident than ever about the career doors opened to him by learning these lucrative skills in Comm Arts’ newest class, …
On May 22nd and 23rd, the 2013 Teaching and Learning Symposium, “Sparking Innovation: Ideas to Impact” took place at Union South. The goal of this year’s Symposium was to share ideas and best practices that enhance teaching and learning excellence on campus. Three Communication Arts instructors, (from left to right) Eric Hoyt, Erik Gunneson, and …
Each year, the Institute for Research in the Humanities awards the Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship to exceptional doctoral dissertators in the humanities at UW-Madison. This year, Comm Arts PhD student Kelly Jakes is one of the recipients, along with Sarah Groeneveld in English and Matthew Rarey in Art History. Kelly’s dissertation project examines popular music in …
You’ve worked hard, played hard, and studied harder. You’ve trekked across the Humanities bridge on icy mornings, heading for lectures in 4070. You’ve turned in your final papers and taken your final exams. It’s time to say goodbye to friends, faculty, and beautiful Vilas Hall. Hooray! You’re graduating! Your degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …